What a cheating husband

Chen Qing collected the rent with Liang Zijun last year, and this time, Wei Liang was by his side to coordinate, but there was nothing wrong with it, except that this year is not good, and the grain is in short supply.

The grain output is not increasing, and the quality is not good. Most of the households pay grain for rent, and very little money is collected.How could the Liang family not know about this small trick of the farmer? Silver is real money, and grain is valued according to its quality and the market price of the year. Now that the grains are dry and not rich, they can't be sold at a good price, so they naturally want to use grain to pay for rent.

There was a lot of food collected, so it was inevitable to make several trips. Liang Zijun was in charge of the most villages, so Chen Qing had to hire three ox carts to transport the food.It took 13 consecutive days to collect all the rent. According to the elder brother's order, a small part was sent to the county town to sell, and most of the money was sold as a vacant house in another hospital.

Liang Zijun's other courtyard would occasionally be used as a granary in disaster years. Uncle Liang would help unload the grain from the truck and put it into the empty room that had been cleaned long ago.

Chen Qingyuan still wondered why so many rooms were vacant, and there were not even a table, chair and bench in it. Now that he knew the truth, he couldn't help but smile knowingly.

The Liang family was very thoughtful. In times of disaster, if the landlord’s family stockpiled a large amount of grain, some people would come to fight the autumn breeze if they failed to keep it in order. The whole family would benefit from the others. And resentment?

If you are poor, you want to change. If you can’t borrow food, the whole family will starve to death. When it’s really life-threatening, who cares about friendship?If you don't borrow food to cause trouble, even if it doesn't hurt people's lives, the Liang family may not have a peaceful life.

After Chen Qing finished her job, she couldn't help being tired and slept hard at home for a whole day.Afterwards, he helped the eldest brother and the others put a small portion of the grain back into the warehouse.

After checking the accounts, Chen Qing knew that the Liang family would lose at least a hundred taels of silver in this move. It would be good if the stored grain could be used next year. The price is low, such a product is afraid that at least 600 taels of silver will be lost.

Chen Qing lamented that it is not easy to be a good person, and his own family has to bear losses and risks, which may not be understood by anyone.At least I didn't know that Liang's family would make so many preparations in advance for the arrival of the disaster year. I just remembered that I was still secretly calculating the amount of repayment I had to pay back when I got the grain seeds back, wondering if the landlord Liang's family had raised the price of the grain seeds.

Feeling very ashamed in her heart, Chen Qing worked harder to help with the work. Even if this year passed, the Liang family made great preparations for disaster prevention. If it really caught up with the disaster year, it would be even more busy.

Liang Zixian took time to call Chen Qing aside and explained, "Don't feel guilty and work hard. From now on, I will be my family. I will explain some things to you first, so that you don't think wildly."

Anyone with long eyes could see Chen Qing's expression of shame and embarrassment. Although it was interesting to see his posture of working with a sullen face, he was really tired, so he hurriedly explained the purpose of this move.

Chen Qing nodded in agreement after hearing this. The Liang family's actions were not all as charitable as he thought. Of course, most of them were to help tenants, and a small part of the reason was to avoid the inability to cultivate the next year after a bad harvest, resulting in good land. vacant.

It is said that when the uncle was young, he also caught up with the riots and looting of Liang's warehouse.The children were starving to death, and the Liang family had such a big piece of fat that they would grab it if they couldn't borrow it. Anyway, there were so many people, and the government had nothing to do with them.When the government inquires the crime the next year, it can save the lives of the whole family, and a few years of corvee is worth it.

Chen Qing pursed his lips tightly, thinking about the intention of piling up most of the grain in the city, he couldn't help but rejoice that the Liang family had thoughtful considerations, the security of the county town was much better than that of the village, even if there was a riot by the victims, no one dared to go to the county town to grab the food. grain.And doing so can also prevent a large amount of grain storage from being seen by interested people. This is the best way for the Liang family to survive and save their lives.

These measures of the Liang family are accumulated over the years. Small landlords do not know how to stockpile grain. Most of them are only wealthier than tenants, and they only have enough grain to eat in times of disaster. If you go to their family to borrow grain , then it will be avoided, so the victims will not rob them of food, even if they rob, the family will not get much.

Just finished the work of collecting the rent, and before they could rest, everyone started to arrange the items needed for Liang Meng's big wedding. In 7 days, Liang Meng will be married. The dowry has already been prepared. Prepared meals.

Chen Qing had prepared for Chen Bi's wedding, so she helped out with running errands. The red tablecloth was the one from Liang Zijun's wedding. The family also saved a lot of eggs, and the rest were sent by tenants.

Chen Qing cruelly slaughtered the two fat pigs, and replaced them with two young pigs. The butcher patted the pigs' buttocks and praised, "My boss's pigs are well raised. They can be so fat before winter, but they eat a lot of good food."

The wedding banquet used two pigs, two sheep, 60 chickens, 30 geese, 30 ducks, plus some rabbits and wild game.The meat is ready, and there are all kinds of cakes, wedding candies, drinks and other things that should be entertained.

Chen Qing ran to the county seat, bought the spices and salt needed for the wedding banquet, and took over the work of chopping firewood.Li San pushed the cart to unload the firewood, took the work from Chen Qing, and drove him to help paste the happy words.

Marriage is a great event no matter what era it is, and Chen Qing couldn't help but click her tongue when she helped arrange the dowry. This big family is very particular. Although Liang Meng is only the daughter of the landlord's family, the dowry is prepared according to the lady of the big family in the city. .

Even the dowry is made of camphor wood boxes, not only jewelry, but also some objects that symbolize good omens.Scissors (meaning that butterflies fly together and never separate), descendants ruler (carved with hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren, which also indicates ten thousand hectares of fertile land), spittoon (meaning children and grandchildren bucket), vase (meaning flowers bloom and wealth), and growing old together (copper Basin and shoes, mandarin duck quilt, bed sheets and a pair of pillows, two pairs of chopsticks and bowls tied with red strings), ample food and clothing (36 sets of clothes, accompanied by lotus seeds, longan and red seee).

Misses of officials and eunuchs will prepare 72 sets of clothes when they get married, and the small Liang family also prepares half of them for facial expressions.Chen Qing closed the wooden box, heard sobbing faintly from inside the house, and stepped out of the yard involuntarily, followed by a dull pain in her heart.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival was Liang Meng's last festival at her natal family. Since she was getting married soon, no one was in the mood to make arrangements, so she just had a reunion dinner and ate a few mooncakes before it was over.

Before getting married, the bride is "opened" by the elders, which can be regarded as a kind of coming-of-age ceremony for women.A woman shows her face once in her life, and she will not show her face again after she remarries.Liu Hongmei took the fine hemp thread from her mother-in-law and personally blessed her daughter. The hemp thread was twisted on the face to remove hair and make the cheeks smoother. In addition, the eyebrows and temples also needed trimming.

In the evening, the cook who helped prepare the banquet led the staff into Liang's house, and Liang Zitong and Liang Miao also came back to congratulate him, and they rested in Liang Baida's courtyard that night.

Liang Miao didn't like this little dad who was as old as her, but she liked the little brother in his womb very much. Before he was born, he prepared a bunch of small clothes and shoes, and he was showing them off to his aunt and grandma with a smile on his face. .

Brother Yang moved his body a little uncomfortably, Liang Zixian handed him a piece of pastry, pinched his round face and urged, "Are you hungry? I have been busy with family matters for the past two days and have not taken care of you."

Brother Yang shook his head and showed a sweet smile. If Liang Miao hadn't been present, he would have been yelling hungry. Seeing that he had something to eat, he hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.Liang Zixian felt distressed, got up and asked Aniang if there was any leftovers in the kitchen.

Mrs. Zhou slapped her thigh, and stood up hurriedly, "Oh, look at my memory, I was so busy talking to Miaoer, I forgot about Pingyang."

"Auntie, you can just stutter. You've been busy all day, and I can't help you much," Brother Yang said shyly.

"How can it be? My eldest grandson is hungry, and your father has to be anxious with me, so wait." Mrs. Zhou glanced at her round belly happily, and hurriedly went to the stove to get supplements.

Liang Miao curled her lips. When she was pregnant, she didn't enjoy the blessings of her little dad. It's good for her mother-in-law to order soup to be cooked on the stove. How could she take care of her like grandma?

Liang Zixian glared at his daughter secretly, he knew how wronged his married daughter was, but her husband's family had never treated her harshly, how could she be compared with her family in everything?

Liang Zitong gave her an angry look and got up to help with the cooking.Liang Miao threw away the little clothes in her hand, stomped her feet and went to help grandma in the kitchen.

Liang Zixian hugged his aggrieved daughter-in-law apologetically and said, "I am spoiled by this child. Her aunt left early, and she was used to being spoiled before she got married. I can't help being hostile to you. Just ignore her."

Brother Yang nodded, touched his stomach and said, "I know."

On the second day, during the ugly hour, all the courtyards of the Liang family lit up their lights one after another, and the smell of stewed meat wafted out in a short while.The banquet for welcoming relatives needs to be prepared before the son-in-law comes to the door, and the banquet will start as soon as the sedan chair arrives.

The married daughter of the Liang family did not entertain the villagers this time, but only invited the elders of the same village and their own relatives, so it was enough to set up 10 tables in the yard for three meals.

As soon as Yinshi arrived, there was a bustling sound of joy at the entrance of the village. As soon as the firecrackers sounded, the matchmaker stepped into the courtyard first, and after saying a lot of auspicious words, led the bridegroom's ceremony team to enter.The Liang family gagged the mouths of the men in the ceremony team with pastries and drinks before sending Li San and Wei Liang out to distribute wedding candies and lai sees.

Liu Hongmei combed Liang Meng's hair and put on a hair accessory. Then she put on a red silk hijab with red eyes and went out to pick up her son-in-law.

In the main hall of the Liang family, the groom kowtows to his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and presents a greeting card.Then came the wedding banquet, the groom paid respects to the elders of his father-in-law, and under the guidance of the matchmaker, he bid farewell to the elders and the ancestors, and then entered the room and recited Liang Meng.

Before getting into the sedan chair, not only the bride was crying, but all the female family members of Liang's family also cried like Liu Hongmei. Even the three men turned around and secretly wiped away their tears. Only Liang Baida sent Liang Meng away with a strong smile.

With a sound of "Get up the sedan chair!" The guns and music took away the baby that the Liang family had loved for 15 years. Liu Hongmei hugged her mother-in-law and cried together. The man lifted the dowry on the bamboo pole and walked out of the Liang family mansion.

The children in the village chased the bridal sedan chair to beg for lai shi, and the matchmaker generously threw out a handful of copper coins, and happily picked up the couple.

Chen Qing waited until the immature groom walked away before returning to Dazao to help.He wasn't used to this atmosphere either, so he simply used his busyness to offset the sourness accumulated in his chest.

The wedding banquet lasted until noon, and after the last wave of guests left drunk, Chen Qing sat among the crowd feeling all kinds of sorrow.

"Okay! Don't cry on the big day. How can a daughter who is not married get a daughter-in-law? Every family has to go through this." Liang Baida spoke first to break the atmosphere.

Liang Zizhuang took his daughter-in-law up and went back to the room first, the yard was cleaned by the workers, they really didn't have the mood to take care of these trivial matters at the moment.

Chen Qing silently exited the main room and ordered the staff to put the things back in place. It was already evening when the yard was going to be cleaned up.Back in the yard, lying on the bed, I can't help but miss the days when Liang Zijun was at home, if that person was at home, I'm afraid he would have been laughing and begging for a long time and made everyone laugh.

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Chen Qing tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.Liang Zijun has been away from home for a whole month, which is considered to be the longest time since he got married.

Time is really unpredictable. It has been a year and half a month since he married into the Liang family, and he even missed his wedding anniversary, so there has been no news.

Thinking that the exam should be over by this time, why don't you send a letter to let me know?Heartless bastard!Chen Qing cursed secretly in her heart and couldn't help but close her eyelids and fell into a deep sleep.